How to Speak Whale - A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
$29.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake'A must-read' New Scientist'Enthralling' George Monbiot'Brilliant' Philip HoareWildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill had always liked whales. But when one breached onto his kayak, nearly killing him, he became obsessed.This book traces his extraordina ...Show more
How to Sleep by Rafael Pelayo
$50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"Easy to read and comprehensive. This book offers real practical guidance." --Matthew Walker, PhD, bestselling author of Why We Sleep Anyone having trouble sleeping has heard all the old "sleep hygiene" rules: Don't drink caffeine after 2:00 p.m., use the bedroom only for sleeping, put down your scr ...Show more
Leadership is Language by L. David Marquet
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Few of us realize that our language in the workplace inhibits creative problem-solving and escalates uncertainty and stress. In both high-pressure situations and everyday scenarios, in each meeting and email, we have the opportunity to empower our colleagues by using the right words. In Leadership is L ...Show more
The Negative by Ansel Adams
$60.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: New Photo S.
The Negative is the second volume in the acclaimed and highly influential The Ansel Adams Photography Series. This second volume is anchored by a detailed discussion of Adams' Zone System and his seminal concept of visualization. It presents detailed discussion of artificial and natural light, film and ...Show more
The Art of Game Design - A Book of Lenses, Third Edition by Jesse Schell
$175.00 NZD
Category: Reference
The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in t ...Show more
Sailors, Settlers and Sinners by Moira Taylor
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
An escape on foot from captivity in France in 1810, the attempted murder of a young wife in New Zealand and a heroic death in the Transvaal in 1880 are just three of the extraordinary stories recounted in Sailors, Settlers & Sinners. Beginning in the port of Hull in East Yorkshire during the French ...Show more
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War - How J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm Of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte
$38.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis. The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence--and the end of faith. Unlike a generation of young writers who l ...Show more
Great Britain 15 (Lonely Planet) by Kerry Walker, Isabel Albiston, Oliver Berry, Joe Bindloss, Keith Drew, Dan Fahey, Kay Gillespie, Laurie Goodlad, Sarah Irving, Emily Luxton, Mike MacEacheran, James March, Hugh McNaughtan, Lorna Parkes, Joseph Reaney, Tasmin Waby
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Travel Guide Ser.
Lonely Planet's Great Britain is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Puzzle the mysteries of Stonehenge, sip whisky in Scotland, and hike the mountains of Wales; all with your trusted travel ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a ...Show more
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook
$33.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
The essays in The Art of Libromancy explore the politics, philosophies, technologies, emotional experience, and craft of selling books in the twenty-first century. In a society filled with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda, true storytelling and story-reading are more ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$40.00 NZD
Category: War
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more